Storm-hood for vehicles.



F. B. HuLL.,-i.31f STORM Hoon Fon VEHICLES. APpLicArfmon FILED SEPT. l5. |914. nmzwgu JAN. 8. 19.17.

' 1,236,439; Panted Aug. 14,1917.

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STORM Hoon rox VEHICLES. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. l5. i914. IIENEWED -I II'N. 8, 19|?.

Patented Aug. 14, 1917.

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W/TVESSES being omitted from the Vbottom of the struc 'Finnair n.' HULL, or nnnitrson, New cansar,

suomi/ancor ron VEHLGLES.

Specicaticn of etterspratent. Patenmd ug ML 19mg Application led September 15, 1914, Serial No. lf Renewed January 8, 1917. Serial No. 141,340.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known thatVI, FIRMAN B. Hunt, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Harrison, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Storm-Hood for Vehicles, of

. whichI the following is a full, clear, and exf'a'ct description.

This invention relates to high speed vc- V"Ahicles, and has particular reference to at .`,tachinents f or use in connection with' auto fmobiles, railway cars or the like, for the -inclement weather.

` More particularly the invention comprises ai. peculiar vconstruction of hood or guard adapted especially for connection to the `purpose of facilitating their operation in 1 wind shield of an automobile for the purpose of preventing rain or 'snow from .ob-

gstructing the vision through the wind shield, and alsoto provide or allow safe and con-` venient driving and to avoid uncomfortable and y dangerous drafts resulting from the use of wind shields of which the upper parts are turned or thrown up in the case of storm toA give an unobstructed vision.

.y "i TheA foregoing and other objects of the 'invention will hereinafterbe more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the dravv'ings forming va part of this speciiication'in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in 'all the views, andin which* Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view of a portion of the left side of an automobile, to the windshield of which is secured my improvement Fig. 21s a side elevation, onla larger scale, of the hood;

Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section on i the line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. t isa view similar to Fig, @but indicating the parts in folded position;

Fig. 5 iS a vertical longitudinal. sect'lOn.

on the line 5 -5 of Fig. 3, the wind buii'er 'varied to a considerable extent .without deo parting from the spirit of `the' invention hereinafter n iore fully set forth and specii-y v` the front 1() is shown connected to the wind shield l1 1 made usually of glass and pivotally connected to the lower portion 12 at 13. The wind shield is or may be of any well known construction,

The hood includes, in" its preferred. ferm,

a top 1.47 the mein POItO'Ii 0f which iSV substantially liat but provided on its Vsides with vertical flanges 15 andy at its front with a downwardly inclined or beveled fiange 16.

The Side flanges l5 are wider at the rear ends than at their front, ends wherebythe lower edges thereof areI inclined down: wardly toward the rear.` lEach of these side anges terminates at its lower edge in similar gutter 18 along the lower edge of the front flange 16 communicates with the two side edges'. Any rainwater from the top 1.4 is conveyed rearwardly from the hood top along said gutters.

Each side member 19 preferably comprises a glass insert 20 or other suitable transparency fitted in any suitable manner in a metallic rim 21 of trapezoidal form. In other words, the rim 21 comprises parallel upper and lower bars 22 and 23, a rear verticalbar 24 and a forwardly and upwardly inclined bar 25. The bar 22 is preferably bent inwardly and downwardly overthe transparency, as shcwn in Fig. 6, and an auxiliary bar 23 coperates with the'lowermost bar 23 to hold the transparency in place. Each of the side members 19 is hinged along a horizontal axis in the inner face of the top side flange 15 so as to fold inwardly and upwardly, as shown in Fig. 4, when the hood is not in use. The hinge is constituted bv portions oi the bar 22 projecting upwardly between knuckles 26 of the hin e member 27 secured permanently along tle inner face of said side liange 15. These parts are connected by means of a pivot rod 28. See Fig. 6. The side members 19 are of a width or height slightly less than halt' the width of the top, and hence are adapted to nest freely within the top, as shown in Fig. 4..

The rear as well as the Vfront of the hood is open and is adapted to be secured squarelyv l y upturned lip iornung a gutter 17, and a against the front face of the shield member 11. As a convenient and eilicient means Jfor securing the. hood thus in position, provide pairs of ears or lugs 29 and 30, the former being connected rigidly to the rear portion of the top and the latter being carried by the free ends of the bottom bars 23. Each of tlese ears has a hole 31 through which the screw or bolt 32 passes rearwardlythrough a corresponding hole formed in the wind sheld 11. The hood is then secured i)n1place by a winged nut 33 for each of said o ts.

At 34 I show a wind ,buffer extending across' the bottom of the hood just in front of the shield 11 for the purpose of preventing an air current up or down within the hood. This member is provided with downwardly extending flanges 35 which engage over and interlock with upwardly turned flanges 23 of the bars 23 at the lower edges of the side wings. This member/34, therefore, constitutes a reinforcement or brace for the lower part of the hood extending, as it does, between the lower edges of the side wings which would otherwise be free except for the connections through the ears 30. When the hood is not needed, as in fair weather, it may be quickly and readily removed from the wind shielda by removing the nuts 33,1

when the hood is slipped freely from the wind shield, and after the wind buffer 34 is Withdrawn from its position, the side members 19 fold up as shown in Fig. 4, when thc device will' be in position or form for slipping beneath a seat or in any other small space.

I claim 1. The herein described storm hood com- ;prising a top member, the main portion of which isllat and horizontal but having vertical side flanges, a pair of wings hinged to the inner faces of said side flanges and movable upwardly around the hinge pivots into the. space between said side flanges, and means to maintain said side flanges in rigid vertical position parallel to each other.

2. In a storm hood, the combination of a top member having side flanges, a pair of side members pivoted on horizontal pivots to the side flanges vand movable upwardly toward each other within the space between said side anges,means to secure the hood in position for use on the front face of a wind shield, and a wind buffer having interlocking connection between the lower edges of the side members of the hood and serving lo stillen the same.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FniMiN n.' HULL.

lVitnesses:

GEO. L. BEELER, PHILIP D. RoLLHAUs. 

